How Cloud Web Hosting Functions

In general, the actual cloud hosting solution serves different web hosting services like storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different stacks of cutting-edge web servers. Each different service set forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing else. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The massive cloud web hosting trick. Quite common these days.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in fact it is extremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a disgrace! A vast disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting business niche there are no laws at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling organization. This is the reason why the hosting firms speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in reality can furnish.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based web hosting supplier has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, loads of web hosting servers must be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting merchant to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, as fabricating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a predicament, plenty of cash has to be invested as well. Piles of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous problem.

The absence of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source CP devices (functioning with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. Hence, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, in the first place you have to develop one. In-house. Secondly, you must create the web hosting CP too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Popular website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to run on a single web server only. All website hosting services (disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on a single server where these particular one-server hosting systems and hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must set up an in-house built hosting CP that will operate perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent component of it. Suitable instances of custom developed cloud hosting solutions with in-house made website hosting CPs besides us, at Hepsia, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fees

The smallest investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting systems can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!